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DeepSeek

Chinese artificial intelligence company

Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops open weights large language models (LLMs). Based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, DeepSeek is owned and funded by High-Flyer, a Chinese hedge fund.

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  • WikipediaSep 28, 2026

    “Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops open weights large language models (LLMs).”

Named in 8 pieces

  1. Safety & Security

    The Signal Brief: A Council, a Confession, and a Five-Billion-Dollar Bet

    Three frontier-lab chief executives told the UN Security Council their industry needs oversight, and hours later a former Anthropic pair priced a self-improving AI startup at $5 billion anyway.

    Sep 24, 2026
  2. Policy & Regulation

    Two Capitals, One Chamber: AI's Chiefs Ask to Be Bound

    Four frontier AI labs, two from Washington and two from Beijing, asked the UN Security Council for shared rules on September 23, only for the White House to reject the idea in the same session.

    Sep 24, 2026
  3. Safety & Security

    The Signal Brief: Monday's Manifesto, Market Rout, and the Guardrails Clash

    Dario Amodei's weekend essay calling for AI to pace its own frontier won rival endorsements within hours, erased tens of billions in market value, and collided with a White House that brands safety guardrails a conspiracy.

    Sep 14, 2026
  4. Safety & Security

    The Signal Brief: Thursday's Doomers, Dollars, and Debuts

    Paul Christiano's arrival on OpenAI's safety board, Harvey's climb past fifteen billion dollars, and John Ternus's first keynote as Apple's chief executive show governance and capital sprinting to match each other's pace this week.

    Sep 10, 2026
  5. Agent Infrastructure

    The Signal Brief: Wednesday's Reckonings, Raises, and Robots

    A pretraining researcher's exit, a credit fight over a machine-solved Millennium Prize problem, and Cognition's forty-eight-billion-dollar valuation show capital and conscience pulling AI in opposite directions this Wednesday.

    Sep 9, 2026
  6. Capital & Markets

    The Signal Brief: Tuesday's Sovereignty, Shields, and Sudden Exits

    Mistral's record raise, dueling cybersecurity models from OpenAI and Google, and a mathematician's public fight with OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck show capital and code both racing toward independence this week.

    Sep 8, 2026
  7. Frontier Models

    Open Weights, Open Questions

    DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng, Alibaba's largely anonymous Qwen organization and Mistral's Arthur Mensch built three distinct paths to open-weight scale, and a 234-million-user app proves the category converts into genuine usage, past mere benchmark bragging rights.

    Aug 1, 2026
  8. Analysis

    Reasoning's Rebate

    Armağan Amcalar's bounded reasoning graphs lifted accuracy from 94 to 98 percent and multiplied performance per dollar by 74 times. That ratio sets the real 2027 price of intelligence.

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